You

One, two, three, close your eyes and see where you are.  Look outward from your heart, inward from your eyes.  What do you perceive?

Right there, in the stillness of your breath lies your core, that beautiful rhythm breathing with life, pounding with love from above.  Keep looking and glimpse your essence, that glittering soul, concentrated and precious beyond words.

At its center, you'll again find you, fully anointed and serene in the knowledge of your existence, beautiful without adornment, pure in being.

You can be pleased:  you've created the perfect presence for the path you've chosen.

And the wind stirs a breeze, the softest caress onto your heart, and you'll rejoice knowing you are again touched by love.

(c) 2016, 2017 Iris B. Struller

rainbows

Rainbows' colors bleed to gray

Leave just a glint of gold array

The hope, the dream of something good

This expectation burnt in wood.

And still I look, I watch, I wait

For glor'ous moment yield to fate,

For just that chance: write in the sky

A moment's love, gone blurry by

Oh yes, I thrive on that belief

That beauty in the end will keep

Will never cast aside that thought,

That will, that faith, a marvel caught

Yet here I am another day,

Gleamed pretty rainbow blown away

And gray skies rumble round above

To tell once more of what is love.

(c) 2017 Iris B. Struller